Take Away Shows

”We want our entire community and all music lovers to have access to their favourite artists and discover new talents during the confinement period,” La Blogothèque write.

Phosphorescent has been on tour since before Coachella. Let's give Matt and band a proper welcome home at Brooklyn Bowl tonight (5/11). Tickets are still on sale, and if you act quick you can try and win a pair on our Facebook too...

words & Yellow Ostrich, which began as the solo recording project of Alex Schaaf, played a 35-minute midnight set to an enraptured crowd at Bowery Electric on a Monday night in December...

DOWNLOAD: Lost in the Trees - Walk Around the Lake (MP3) "Lost in the Trees is the music of Ari Picker, a songwriter from Chapel Hill on a bit of a mission: Take a pinch of the brilliance found in classical music and mix it with his own...

DOWNLOAD: Parlovr - Pen to the Paper (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Suuns - Arena (MP3) Making good use of those year-long visas, Montreal trio Parlovr are heading back down to the States next week for a short North East tour, with two stops here in NYC: Wednesday, July 21 for an early show at Mercury Lounge and and Friday, July 23 at Knitting Factory...

Land of Talk @ Bowery Ballroom in May (more by Andrew St. Clair) Land of Talk are releasing their second full-length album, Cloak & Cipher on August 24th via Secret City (Canada)/Saddle Creek (US)...

DOWNLOAD: Braids - Lemonade (MP3) Montreal's Braids will be in NYC next week, playing Knitting Factory on Tuesday May 25 with Depreciation Guild (whose very good second album Spirit Youth is out this week) and Wild Nothing (their debut, Gemini, which is also quite good, is out that day), and then an early show at Mercury Lounge on May 27 (no advance tickets) with fellow Montreal residents The Luyas who just can't seem to stay away from our city now that they've broken their NYC cherry (they were here the other day to play a 20 minute set at the National's High Violet Annex)...

DOWNLOAD: The Luyas - Tiny Head (MP3) The other highlight for me Thursday night was getting to see The Luyas who are really unlike anything else going right now...

On Saturday, February 13th, filmmaker Vincent Moon of La Blogotheque will be at UnionDocs (322 Union Ave) in Brooklyn to screen and discuss Take Away Shows and other shorts...

Happy Holidays! I take on more than I can handle. That results in a lot of unposted content. In the name of catching up, while also taking it easy during this final week of the year, here's some of that lost material...